I use this to search: https://lemmyverse.net/
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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I think search is limited to communities that any user of your instance has subscribed to.
You want this. https://browse.feddit.de/
Oh weird. Is that a framework limitation of Lemmy? Seems undesirable. Thanks for the response.
That is a Lemmy is ran by thousands of individuals who do not want to pay out of pocket to allow every server in the fediverse to waste their resources running search queries all day limitation.
Definitely a bad user experience for an everyday pleb like myself. Seems like a solution will be needed for that eventually if we want wider adoption. That's far beyond the scope of Boost, though, so I'll leave it there. Thanks for the explanation.
When I search for e.g. "iama", I get several communities from several instances. Seems to work for me. Maybe your instance isn't federating correctly? Or maybe you're looking for niche communities that simply don't exist anywhere? Do other clients/apps work?
What you see when you search, and what everyone around you sees, is different and depends on what instances your instance talks to.